In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize, to act collectively, to become a civil society. Most prominently, they established a new Ukrainian identity: territorial, inclusive, and present-focused with powerful mobilizing symbols. Driven by an urban “bourgeoisie” that rejected the hierarchies of industrial society in favor of a post-modern heterarchy, a previously passive post-Soviet country experienced a profound social revolution that generated new senses: “Dignity” and “fairness” became rallying cries for millions. Europe as the symbolic target of political aspiration gradually faded, but the impact (including on Europe) of Ukraine’s revolution remained. When Russia invaded—illegally annexing Crimea and then feeding continuous military conflict in the Donbas—, Ukrainians responded with a massive volunteer effort and touching patriotism. In the process, they transformed their country, the region, and indeed the world. This book provides a chronicle of Ukraine’s Maidan and Russia’s ongoing war, and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer.
Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Mychailo Wynnyckyj is Associate Professor at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Sociology Department and Business School). Until recently he served as Head of the Secretariat of Ukraine’s National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, and prior to that as Advisor to three of Ukraine’s Ministers of Education (2015–2019). Originally from Canada, Mychailo has lived permanently in Kyiv for almost two decades. He was awarded a PhD in 2004 from the University of Cambridge (U.K.), and gained Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Mychailo is a regular commentator for English-language media outlets (CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, CTV, Kyiv Post, and others), and provides analysis on current events in his "Thoughts from Kyiv" blog. His book “Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity” was published in English in 2019, and in Ukrainian translation in 2021.
Serhii Plokhy
Dr. Serhii Plokhy ist Professor für Ukrainische Geschichte und Direktor des Ukrainischen Forschungsinstituts an der Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Der Bestsellerautor von Das Tor Europas: Die Geschichte der Ukraine (2022), Die Frontlinie (2022) und Der Angriff: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und seine Folgen für die Welt (2023) ist preisgekrönter Verfasser zahlreicher Bücher.
Lieferzeit
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Lieferzeit 2-3 Werktage.
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Vorwort von | Serhii Plokhy |
Seitenzahl |
444
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Sprache |
Englisch
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Hardcover
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Erscheinungsdatum |
30.04.2019
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21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
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Reihe |
Ukrainian Voices
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ISBN
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978-3-8382-1300-2
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595 g
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"As a serious scholar, a member of Ukraine’s ‘creative class’, and as a participant in the Revolution of Dignity, Wynnyckyj provides a fascinating and measured account of these observable events and their significance. In dealing with the unseen values behind this tangible conflict, he asserts that the Revolution of Dignity represented a ‘civilizational shift from the “sensate” materialism characteristic of the modern period to some form of postmodern idealism as predicted by Pitirim Sorokin’, a significant step forward for European civilisation (p. 332). […] Wynnyckyj’s interpretation of the Revolution of Dignity, the best English-language account to appear, analyses the fire in people’s minds during an extensive political crisis when millions mobilised under a makeshift ideology."—George O. Liber, Europe-Asia Studies, 72:10
"Mychailo Wynnyckyj has produced a superb overview and analysis of the dynamics behind this conflict and the post-revolutionary reforms introduced during Petro Poroshenko's presidency [….]. As a serious scholar, a member of Ukraine's 'creative class', and as a participant in the Revolutioin of Dignity, Wynnyckyj provides a fascinating and measured account of these observable events and their significance."—George O. Liber, Professor of History, Europe-Aisa Studies, 72:10